Joyce's Memoir

This noon, mom and I went to a neighbour's house who had a cooking demonstration. She is part time AMWAY marketer for a very cool electronic oven. Few weeks back she invited us and tempted us with the menu of the day,Fried Chicken using water and not cooking oil. With much curiosity, it answered my doubt. It's actually an oven look alike which uses steam to cook food.Thus this afternoon, I had a taste of every food there were the menu to illustrate what the electronic product could do.Yummy and Healthy are the main words to describe...Here are some pictures I took:

Last Sunday, I was at Summit Mall (a mall,for those not KL readers)with a friend who is going to Pahang soon for her new college. After a few walks in shops, we came upon a shop which sells crystals. We couldn't afford the pricey crystal bracelets nor necklaces, thus we settled upon the tiny, individual unpolished ones in a big bowl. I won't say I'm a big believer in their functions, but the girls at the shop really convinced me with a lot of bull. Still, I don't mind having some crystals as I think they are kinda pretty and I love looking at the different type of colors and guessing its mineral names.Now, when I'm working, I do pocket a pinkish crystal(known to help strenghten people relationship) and a smokey white crystal(known for shoo-ing away negative energy).Who knows, maybe it works or i could just play with it awhile when I'm bored :)

Is it so wrong to have young people in this education field?! When I tell people that I now venturing a new career path, teaching in a special learning center,I keep getting responses like,"Oh!umm.. that's interesting..." When I asked teachers if they been working as teachers all this while,they replied,"Nolah! When I was young, I worked elsewhere in other type of business path.You think I would be here teaching at that age ar?"

WHY CANNOT MEH?!!! Why it seems that only elderly people who are going to retire or retired will choose this career path as a passing time? Don't they know teaching is actually a humble career?Don't they know we, teachers are the hope to educate and give better futures to the younger generation? Indeed, I was very disappointed... :(

Today at work I was so upset with a new collegue..(correction: She is not even comfirmed, just there for observation for another center branch she will be stationed).One of my other collegue, Maggie who is in her late 50's wondered why someone like me in her 20's would venture herself in this education career,unless I have a passion for children and I have a plan in mind that I would one day taking care of a center myself,(which I hope so oneday too).The other lady who passed her retirement age heard this and said,"Oh, I expected your English to be better!" Bloody woman!!!How dare she said that!!She has no right considering minutes early she told me that she doesn't really have a passion for children but able to tolerate them. She is an old virgin, no children of her own or exposured to children, really do not have any right to say what she said!!This I do not respect no matter how elderly the person are! After knowing that I did not have my local education instead I did overseas in International schools during my teens, she proceeded commenting that she expected my English to be like "ang mos" Bloody woman!Just because I had my education abroad, doesn't means I was taught to speak like "ang mos", we were only exposured to the structure of the westerners' education, not mimik or copycat how to speak with an accent! We were more exposure to more open-minded things, that's it! Doesn't she knows that most students in those International Schools are not ,majority of "ang mos" but more asian like Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese..etc..

I'm so pissed of by this nothing but an old grouchy virgin, no passion for children lady! I hope the director of the other center will see through this and not hire her!

As in today onwards,I no longer a kindergarten teacher but a specialised reading teacher at Vital Years. I'm going to miss my children so much there especial a little boy named KaXuan...missing him already.I guess you can say i grew very attached to him throughout the 4months i taught there..

I hope this is my calling..I really hope I will do well in the education industry.Hope to able to help more young children to read.I thank you my sister who is all the way in Washington D.C,still supports me and that's the strength I hope will help pull me through.Hope one day I could be a director of a center..pray pray pray....